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HAT SIZING B/IAGHINP.` No. 278,509. Patented MayZQ, 1883.

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` SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 278,509, dated May 29, 1883.

` Application nieu January 24,1853. (Model.)

` To all whom-it may concern:

Be it known that I, `AARON T. CLARK, of

i Dannernora, in the county of Clintonand following is a rollers, the operatingfsurfaces of which are made of ilexible rollers,\the action of which is more even and the quality of the work done is more like hand-work than other sizing-machines are capable of.

My invention also consists of an improved contrivance of the sizing-rollers for eilicient action, all as hereinafter fully described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in which similar letters ot' reference indicate corresponding parts in all the gures.

Figure 1 is a plan view ot' myimproved hatsizing machine. Fig. 2 is an end elevation, and Fig. 3 is asectional elevation on the line .r a of Fig. 1.

The machine is designed for sizing fur and woolhats, and `consists of a watertank, a, of suitable material, size, and form, suitably mounted in a frame, b, for supporting it at the height for the convenience of theworkman, in which tank two rollers, c, are placed side by side',extending from'end to end of the tank, and arranged thereat in bearings for their journals, allowing them to be rotated by power applied to adriving-pulley, d, with which they are suitably geared. The peripheral operating-surfaces of these rollers are formed of flexible rods e, which are journaled side by side in the circular heads f. Besides these rollers c, I have one Aor two (or more, if desired) similarly-constructed rollers, j, mountedin a frame, g, so as to work over rollers c to act upon the hat-bodies, which are to be placed between said rollers. The frame gis also to `be so arranged that said rollers j may move toward and from rollers c, and is for this purpose jointed at It to suitable supports of` the frame b to swing up and down thereon, and-a foot-lever, t', is connected to the opposite side of said frame by lconnectingrod o, `for enabling the operator quired in the progress of the work. The lever i may be weighted or have a spring connected with it for pressing down rollers j on the work, if required. The rollers j are geared together with each other, and also with pinion 7c, by which the upper and lower rollers are geared together, is mounted in the axis of the joint h of frame g, allowing said frame to swing without interfering with the' connection.

in sufficient quantity for the rollers c to run, when necessary, an inch or more in the water. Both the upper and lower sets of rollers are geared togethei` by intermediate pinions, e, for causing the rollers of each pair to turn inthe same direction. Likewise the rollers of both pairs are made to turn in the same direction, so that the motions of the contiguous parts of the rollers are opposed to each other for the purpose of contining the hat-bodies between them for continuous action upon the bodies. It will be seen that the elastic rods forming the operative surfaces of the .rollers are calculated to have more even and superior effect on the goods than rollers of unyieldi g surfaces can.

I am aware that the rolls yof a hat-felting machine have heretofore been constructed with yielding surfaces between their heads bymeans of inclined rods, each hinged at one end in one head ot' the roll, the opposite 4end of the rod working in a groove in the other head of the roll and supported by a spring; and I am also 'aware that in a hat-felting machine a ribbed roll with small rigid rolls mounted between the ribs and projecting between them has heretofore been employed, and I therefore lay no claim .to such invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- I,

1. In a hat-sizing machine,a sizing-roll, c, provided with circular heads f, having a series of holes arranged on their inner faces,near their oircumferences, adjacent to each other,

to raise up rollers j whenever it may be re` the rollers c, for being rotated thereby. The

In practice the tank a `is to contain water in which holes are journaled. eide `by side a i, Weightedat its inner end, connecting-rod series of horizontal flexible rods, e, substan-v o, and gearing for operatingsaid rolls, subtally as shown and described. stantially as shown and descrlbed.

2. In a hat-sizing machine, the'eombination, AARON T. CLARK. 5 with the lower roll, c, tank a, and upper rolls, j, Witnesses arranged in a hinged frame, g, said rolls c and PETER BROWN,

f j being constructed as seb forth, of the treadle GHAS. MO0N. 

